Tie-holding attachment



Nov. 27, 1945. WQ KENNEDY TIE-HOLDING ATTACHMENT Filed 0G13. 30, 1945 INVENTOR.

Patented Nov. 27, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TIE-@HOLDIN G ATTACHMENT `Walter I. Kennedy, Boston, Mass.

Application yOctober 30, 1943, Serial No. 508,317

My invention relates to improvements in tieholding attachments for application to shirts and the like and it has for its object to provide an attachment of the class indicated adapted to h'old in place the end or ends of a four-in-hand ytie and which will be of simple and inexpensive construction.

To these ends I have provided an improved tieholding attachment for shirts and the like which, in its preferred form, maybe constructed and function as set forth in the following description, the several novel features ofthe invention being particularly pointed out and defined inthe claims at the close of said description.

I-n the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation, full size, of the inner side or face of a tie-holding attachment constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is an elevation of 'the outer side or face of the attachment shown in Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Figure 4 shows my `new attachment in use,

Figure 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 4 illustrating an alternative construction.

Figure 6 also illustrates a third form of the invention.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 comprises two superposed rectangular swatch-like plies of cloth or other suitable flexible sheet material including an outer face ply I and a lining ply II. The lower marginal portions of these two plies are fastened together by a transverse line of stitches I2 extending from side to side thereof and their opposite side marginal portions are fastened together by lines of stitches I3 and I3', respectively, extending from top to bottom thereof. 'I'he top marginal portions of said plies are fastened together by two lines of stitches I4 and I4 whose inner ends are spaced apart as shown.

Two relatively parallel spaced apart lines of stitches I and I5 fasten together the intermediate portions of the two plies of cloth I0 and II, said stitches extending longitudinally from the inner ends of stitches I4 and I 4 to the lower transverse line of stitches I2 so as to provide between them a longitudinal pocket I6 (Fig. 3) which is open at its upper end and within which is disposed a U-shaped stilfener I'I.

This stiener is preferably made from suitable sheet material such, for example, as cardboard, Celluloid, Lucite, or metal, and is inserted in the pocket I 6 through the upper open end of the latter.

Thus, when the stilener is in position within the pocket I6 vthe device is characterized vby an intermediate relatively stiff longitudinal panel I8 provided at opposite sides thereof with two flexible longitudinal flaps I9 and 20.

The plies I0 and II are assembled and sewed together as Aabove described to form a unitary structure after which the intermediate panel I8 is formed with two buttonholes 2l and 2l one near the top of the device and the other near the lower end thereof, while the flap 20 is likewise formed with two longitudinally alined buttonholes 22 and 22', one near 'the top of the device and the other near the lower end thereof. The buttonholes '2-I and 2|" aredisposed upon the longitudinal medial line of panel I8 and likewise the buttonholes 2-2 `and 22 are disposed upon the longitudinal medial line oi exible panel '20. The Ydista-nce between the two buttonholes 2| and 2I' from center to center, is approximately the same -as the distance between two proximate buttons 23 (Fig. -4) as found upon mens shirts which are practically alike in this respect, viz., about three and one-quarter vinches apart, th'e lengths Vof the lbuttonholes themselves affording some latitude in either direction. The buttonholes 22 and 22 are preferably disposed the same distance apart but this is not essential.

Sewed or otherwise secured upon the outer face ply I0 of panel I9 are two buttons 24 and 24 disposed upon the longitudinal medial line of said panel in positions to cooperate with' the buttonholes 22.

In using the above described attachment the outer face ply I0 is placed against the shirt of the wearer and the device attached to said shirt by engaging the two buttonholes 2I and 2 I with two of the buttons 23 of the shirt 28. Then, after placing the leg 25 of the tie (Fig. 4), or both legs 25 and 26, over the middle panel I8 of the attachment, the ap I9 is folded over on to the same, after which the flap 20 is folded over on to said flap I9 and buttoned to the same. As will be clear, the part or parts of the tie thus confined are held at the middle of the shirt and against sidewise displacement in any direction or manner and also to a substantial extent against upward displacement.

Sometimes the tie is knotted as at 2'1 with the leg 25 objectionably longer than the outer leg 26 in which case a tuck 25a, may be formed in said leg 25 and confined within the attachment as shown in Fig. 5.

In Fig. 5 of the drawing the attachment is shown in central longitudinal section after application to the shirt 28 and to the leg 25 of the tie and as shown this form of the invention is made from a single rectangular ply of cloth or the like similar to the ply I of Figs. 1 and 2 and like the latter is formed with buttonholes and provided with buttons as described in connection with said Figs. 1 and 2. In this case the stitches and stiiener of Figs. land 2 are omitted.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated in Fig. 6 comprises two rectangular oblong plies of flexible sheet material Illa and lla of cloth or the like sewed together and provided with a stiffener Ila substantially as described in connection with Figs. 1 and 2. In this case, however, the

panel |919 is provided with a single centrally disposed button 24 while the panels I8b and 20D are provided with centrally disposed buttonholes 2l and 22, respectively.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a tie-holding attachment for shirts comprising a swatchlike body of cloth provided with a medially disposed buttonliole for the reception of a button of the shirt at the front of the latter by which the attachment is held in position thereon, and having flaps at the opposite sides of said buttonhole to be folded inwardly around an existing tie, and means to fasten said aps together in superposed relationship to conne the tie within the attachment while the latter is held against up and down and sidewise displacement by the but ton of the shirt, said means comprising a button secured in position upon the exterior of one of said flaps and a buttonhole formed in the other flap for the reception of said last-mentioned button.

2. A tie-holding attachment for shirts and the like comprising a two-ply swatch-like body of flexible sheet material provided adjacent to its middle with means for separably engaging the shirt or the like thereby to secure the device flatwise in position thereon; stitches securing the two plies of said body together and tforming a pocket adjacent to the middle of said body with flexible flaps at opposite sides of said pocket to be folded inwardly toward each other over the tie; means for separably fastening said aps together in their in-folded positions, and a stiiener within said pocket.

3. A tie-holding attachment for shirts and the like comprising a two-ply swatch-like body of flexible sheet material provided adjacent to its middle with a buttonhole for separably engaging a button of the shirt or the like thereby to secure the device atwise in position upon the latter; stitches securing the two plies of said body together and forming a pocket adjacent to the middle of the latter with flexible flaps at opposite sides of said pocket to be folded inwardly toward each other over the tie; means for separably fastening said aps together in their in-folded positions, and a stiffener within said pocket.

4. A tie-holding attachment for shirts and the like comprising a two-ply swatch-like body of flexible sheet material provided adjacent to its middle with means for separably engaging the shirt or the like thereby to secure the device flatwise in position thereon; stitches securing the two plies of said body together and forming a Docket adjacent to the middle of the latter with exible aps at opposite sides of said pocket to be folded inwardly toward each other over the tie and into overlapping relationship, one of said flaps being made with a buttonhole and the other flap being provided with a button engageable with said hole to separably fasten said iiaps together in their in-folded positions, and a stiffener within said pocket.

5. A tie-holding attachment for shirts and the like constructed in accordance with claim 2 and wherein the means for separably engaging the shirt or the like consists of a pair of buttonholes disposed one above the other adjacent to the 1ongitudinal medial line of said body, said buttonholes being spaced apart a distance approximating the distance between two proximate front buttons of an existing shirt.

WALTER I. KENNEDY. 

